According to Whose Will
Subtitle: The Entanglements of Gender & Religion in the Lives of Transgender Jews With an Orthodox Background
Publisher: Uppsala Universitet
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 220
ISBN-13: 9789155498238
Description: "This study, the first in its scope of transgender religiosity, explores the entanglements of gender and religion in the lives of 13 transgender participants with a Jewish Orthodox background (formerly and currently Orthodox). To that end, this study presents a series of themes distributed among three central periods in the participants' lives: pre-transition, transition and post-transition. The findings detail the ways in which gender and religion were negotiated by the participants through what is described as dislocations and reversal stories. Gendered religious practices, a key feature of Orthodox Judaism figure prominently in the analysis." -- Back cover.